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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Description of problem:
The startup script for ntp checks to see if /etc/ntp/step-tickers exists- if it
does, it tries to run ntpdate to sync the clock. However, the script reports
success even if ntpdate fails
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.1.0-4
How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change /etc/ntp/step-tickers to have an IP address of a server without ntp
service.
2. (Re)start ntpd with /etc/init.d/ntpd.
Actual Results: Script reports success on ntpdate time sync.
Expected Results: Script should have reported failure on ntpdate time sync.
Additional info:
This bug confused us for quite some time as to why ntpd was not working
properly (considering the lack of good documentation on it- not even a man
page!)